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By Sean Broderick
Embraer’s civil aircraft deliveries fell both year-over-year and sequentially in the first quarter (Q1), as the company handed over six commercial airframes and eight business jets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Colonial Pipeline, the largest petroleum pipeline system in the U.S., plans to allow its system to be used to transport sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Safran is gaining experience in electric propulsion, testing prototypes and studying aircraft architectures as it positions itself as the supplier of a full range of motors for all-electric and hybrid propulsion systems, from light aircraft to narrowbodies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. delivered the first Gulfstream G600 to be outfitted at its Dallas facility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Orloff
In March of 2022, Textron announced it would be acquiring Slovenian electric aircraft company, Pipistrel.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Wisk Aero’s production self-flying air taxi will carry four passengers, the Boeing-backed startup has confirmed.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Formalizing a relationship first announced at the Paris Air Show in 2019, U.S. regional airline Cape air has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Eviation Aircraft for the purchase of 72 Alice electric aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Molly McMillin
Transactions for preowned business aircraft rose 35% during the first three months of 2022 compared to a year ago.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
The fast rise in preowned business aircraft pricing, prevalent in the second half of 2021, appears to be leveling off, some brokers say, although they aren’t seeing market softening.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Zanite Acquisition has beefed up the committed funding that is backing its planned going-public merger with Eve, Embraer’s urban air mobility spinoff, as it heads into a May 6 shareholder vote on the deal.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Honeywell has started testing reaction time differences between expert pilots and novices on its prototype simplified vehicle operation cockpit system for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Italy’s Tecnam Aircraft has introduced a new two-seat piston aircraft called the P-Mentor designed for student training with international deliveries beginning in the next four months.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Bcomp, a Swiss startup producing composites using natural fibers, has received an investment from Airbus Ventures as part of a CHF34 million ($35 million) Series B financing round led by BMW i Ventures.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A hybrid-electric power system designed for applications ranging from drones to uncrewed cargo aircraft and passenger air taxis has been unveiled by startup LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With testing of a subscale uncrewed demonstrator underway in waters off Tampa, Florida, Regent has solidified its maritime certification path with confirmations from U.S. and European aviation regulators that its planned wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) regional transports are not considered aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Austrian startup CycloTech and Japanese package carrier Yamato have completed a study into the feasibility of developing an uncrewed cargo aircraft using thrust-vectoring cyclorotor propulsion to operate in confined urban areas, even in high winds.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
German energy company EnBW and aerospace research agency DLR have launched a three-year project to explore the use of cargo and passenger drones to support the maintenance of offshore wind farms.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Lilium has taken another step in the type certification process for its electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi, submitting its means of compliance to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Benefiting perhaps from steadily improving relations between China and Indonesia, EHang has secured its largest commitment to date from an Asian customer with preorders for 100 EH216 autonomous air taxis from Prestige Aviation, an Indonesian aircraft sales and management company.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
At first, advanced air mobility flights will be piloted. But the industry widely agrees its aircraft must become autonomous at some point if operations are to scale up to hoped-for high volumes. Rather than if, the debate centers largely on when.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Vertiports designed for future electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are beginning to pop up around the U.S.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Tis the season for spring cleaning, and in midtier commercial manufacturing that increasingly means divesting assets to either become more focused on aerospace or at least certain parts of it.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Sean Broderick
Long-time agency official Lirio Liu will take over as executive director of FAA’s Aircraft Certification Service, replacing Earl Lawrence, who moves to the NextGen Office to become deputy assistant administrator.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
German startup Theion is targeting electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as an early market for solid-state, lithium-sulfur batteries that promise three times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion cells.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Start-up Overwatch Imaging of Hood River, Oregon, has closed an $11 million Series A financing round to advance its precision imaging payloads designed for drones and general aviation aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion